County of GP No. 1 News Archive

The Grande Prairie pop-culture convention Grande Con returned last weekend. Town & Country News visited on Saturday and here are a few photos from the visit.

There are 26 cemeteries within the County of Grande Prairie and a commitment by one man will ensure the stones marking those graves continue to stand.In May, Peace Country Historical Society president Ron Thoreson presented county council with a request for $3,500 for a cemetery marker preservation project. He said the funds would be used […]

The annual summer festival will not go on this year at the McNaught Homestead, but work continues to help renovate and preserve the site.McNaught Homestead Preservation Society president Peter Martin said the festival will not go on this year due to renovations which will see a new foundation under the homestead house.To that end, the […]

For about three years, a local Grovedale meadery has been making a buzz locally, nationally and even internationally. Its honey-based wine or mead started as a passion project for the owner and mead maker, Kristeva Dowling, at Stolen Harvest. “I started as a hobby beekeeper,” said Dowling. In her third year of beekeeping, her four […]

The Beaverlodge Daycare is hoping the community will band together following a second spree of vandalism that has left town residents feeling frustrated. Daycare executive director Alysha Martin said its building was been the target of vandals over the Canada Day weekend. “We had left some paint out in a bin in the backyard,” Martin […]

Producers may have been wishing for more moisture over the winter months but dry soil led to a quick seeding season for Peace farmers, according to County of Grande Prairie agricultural fieldman Sonja Raven. “For our county, we were probably two weeks early and we were done fast,” Raven said. “Seeding went really well. It […]

Rising Above, a faith-based addictions treatment centre, asked city council for permission to build a new building at its current location and extend the current land lease an additional 40 years at the June 26 council meeting. The estimated $3.8 million build will be a three-storey 3,200 sq. ft. structure on the northeast corner of its […]

Richard Harpe had some extremely busy years, his son Andre recalls.At work or on the farm, in the council chambers and in his community, Richard was always there to lend a helping hand, right up until his passing last month.Richard passed away June 2 at the age of 79.“He was a very caring person,” Andre […]

While Sexsmith looks forward to its first Communities in Bloom (CiB) competition and Wembley expresses its interest, one venerable community is gracefully bowing out.Community members have until July 15 to register for a competition of yards, gardens, and flower displays, judged by the local CiB committee.Six members sit on the committee, including coun. Ken Hildebrand […]

The Rio Grande Rodeo returned on the weekend. The rodeo kicked off on Saturday with the Little Britches competitions, which included team roping, breakaway roping, barrels, pole-bending, and goat-tying.  This year, Rio Grande celebrated its 107 years of being active and added the Elite Indian Relay races to the entertainment.